AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X +273%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

VS

Radeon R9 M470X

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

May 2016

All-In-One

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

14

-

480

Shading Units

896

24

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

Emerald

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

Emerald XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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